The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-12
YELLOW JACK.
Some Interesting Facts About its
Treatment in the Past.

Some Interesting Facts About it's
Treatment in the Past.
From the Jacksonville (Blu.) Times union.
Divested of all panic or fear, the study of
yellow fever, as curious physical phe-
nomenon, is one of great interest. Its his
tory and the history of its treatment are
full of contradictions. The great reason
why its treatment is, and has ever been, al
most entirely experimental is the fact that
experience is no guide What promises to
become a recognized specific in one cpl
demic, is almost poison in another.
This has been strikingly Illustrated in our
own State. A representative of this paper, in
q recent conversation with one of the oldest
and most experienced physicians in the
State, DR.. William Judge, of Milton, heard
the following remarkable experience: In
1853 New Orleans was visited by an cpl
demic of yellow fever, II extended with
more or less violence eastward as far as San
ia Rosa county, Florida, and ragged with con-
siderable violence in and about Milton DR.
Judge, then young physician followed the
usual line of treatment based on the theory
that yellow fever was malignant type of
bilious and malarial fever. His mainstays
were quinine and calomel, with stimulating
tonics. He was blessed with success that
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of country. In New Orleans at the same
time, prominent physicians followed the
| same course, and almost invariably with
fatal results. They seemed but to hasten
the end
In 1867, Milton was again visited by an
| epidemic. DIR. Judge was Immediately at
work, being in the saddle almost day and
night. He followed the same treatment,
but the disease received no check therefrom
1t seemed to defy all his skill, and patients
thus treated We're not benefited A case of
peculiar interest excited the sympathy of a
neighbor, who begged the Doctor to 60 a
mile or more from town and visit the pa
tient. This patient was tho wife of a COM
mon laborer, who for years had spent all
his earnings for strons drink. The woman
had suffered all the horrors and hardshps
Of a dr1lnkard's wife, and now alone and
deserted was found lying on n pallet on the
floor of comfortleSs cabin in the last
stages of yellow fever The doctor imnedi-
ately perceived that her hours were num-
bered. As he turned to leave her the poor
creature asked if she might have u little
whisky. On inquiry it was found that she
had tasted il but "a few times in her life. but
now she felt a strong desire for it. Wiling
to grant any request of one who could in
no event survive the night, DR.. Judge
yielded all assent, and as she pointed out a
quart bottle left by her husband, the doctor
placed it within her reach and left
The next day, having occasion to pass
near the cabin, the Doctor dismounted and
entered, prepared to find only CHASTITY
corpse. Instead of this, he found patient
alive, brighter, better and much improved
i'll every respect. On questioning, he found
that she had slipped the liquor at intervals
during the night until she had drained the
last drop. She had drank quart of
whisky in less than twelve hours and vet
showed no evidence of intoxication. She
wished for more, which was furnished, and
in one week she was entirely recovered, and
i'll ten days was assisting the doctor as a
nurse.
From this time until the close of the
epidemic Dr. Judge had but one remedy.
and that was whisky, and he never lost an
other patient that year. 1t cured like magic.
The following year yellow fever again ap-
peared, and DIR. Judge, confident in his
former success, began the whisky treat
ment. Bullets could not have proved dead
lier. Fortunately for his patients, he, like
all candid, well-trained physicians. adj
yanced continually, and soon learned that
the disease Of the second year was of an
other type from that OF 81.